According to the experts over the Malware Blog, the scam usually works by sending people to a YouTube-like website. Once a user clicks anywhere on the page, he or she is asked to take a survey. The scammers gets paid for the survey results, and the malicious link is posted to the victim's wall, continuing the spam cycle, ZDNet reported.

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Whenever you see a posting on Facebook that looks like a scam, report it by communicating with the site’s security team, that you can find by clicking here. Then check your own wall to make sure nothing fishy got posted there. Next, click on the security settings in the upper right-hand corner of your screen to make sure that no rogue applications have been installed in your account, and while you're at it, delete apps you haven't used within the last six months.